Means for securing pipes to walls of buildings.



No. 65l,|86. lPaten'ted .lunre 5, |900.

J. HAGUE.' MEANS FOB SEGURlN-G PI'PES TU WALLS 0F BUILDINGS.

(Application led Mar. 31, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PAT/ENT OFFICE.

JOHN HAGUE, OF ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, ENGLAND.

MEANS FOR SECURING PIPES TO WALLS OF BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 651,186, dated J une 5, 1900.

Application filed March 3l, 1900. Serial No. 10,960. (No model.)

.To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J onN BAGUE, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Adam street, Ashton under Lyne, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in or Relating to Means for Securing Pipes to the l/Valls of Buildings, of which the following is 'a speciication.

This 'invention relates to means for securing cast-iron or other metal pipes which are required to be fixed in a vertical position (-or nearly so) either to the inneror outer wall of a brick building These pipes are ordinarily employed for carrying off rain orwaste water or the like and are usually made with a socket at the upper end, into which the lower end of the next pipe above lits. The sockets are each provided with a lug or iiange at each side which sets close against the face of the brickwork, and each lug or flange is provided with a round hole, through which nails' or holdfasts are driven into the joints of the brickwork to secure the same to the wall, and it is a matter of frequent occurrence that in order to insure the driving of the nail exactly into the joint of the said brickwork it is necessary to raise the lower end of the pipe some distance above the bottom of the socket of the pipe below it, so that the weight of the pipe instead of resting upon the bottom of the socket of the pipe beneath it, as it should, has to be borne by the nails or holdfasts driven into the wall.

The object of my invention is to provide means whereby this defect may be remedied, so that the lower end of each pipe can rest firmly upon the bottom of the socket of the pipe below it at the same time that the nails or holdfasts can always be driven with certainty into the joints between the brickwork, whereby greater economy and other beneiicial advantages will be secured, and the pipes will be more firmly held and more secure from a sanitary point of view.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a vertical section, and Fig. 3 a horizontal sectional view, of the socketed end of a rain-water or other pipe with part of the spigot end of another pipe inserted therein and supported thereby. Fig. 4 illustrates part of a brick wall, showing how by the use of my invention every nail or holdfast can always be driven with certainty into and between the joints of the brickwork at the same time that the spigot end of one pipe is always firmly supported in the socket end of the one next beneath it.

The invention consists of an iron lug or fiange a, cast on each side of the socket l) of the pipe c, which may be either circular, as shown, or square in sect-ion. These lugs are made of an elongated form, preferably as shown on the drawings, and in each lug or flange, on each side of the pipe, is left or formed a slot d, these said slots not being vertical, but inclined toward each other, as shown, and rather longer than the depth of a brick, so that whatever irregularity there may be either in the brickwork itself or in the length of the pipes it will alwaysbe possible to drive a nail or holdfast e through some part of the slot d (as the case may be) directly into the joint between the brickwork, and at the same time the lower or spigot end of each pipe c can be forced home into the socket end b of the pipe below it and rest thereon.

I claim as my inventionv The improved means for securing socketed pipes to the walls of buildings consisting in the combination with the socket of the pipe of two flat lugs or wings each provided with an elongated inclined slot rather longer than the depth of a brick, substantiallyin the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described, and as illustrated by the drawings annexed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN HAGUE.

Witnesses:

GEO. DAvIns, JNO. HUGHES. 

